About eight years before the Xerox built the Alto at PARC and over a decade before the Apple ][ premiered, Italian business equipment manufacturer Olivetti produced a bona fide desktop personal ...

Thank you for Keith Houston’s review of “The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti” by Meryle Secrest (Five Best, Aug. 19), which includes well-deserved praise for my first computer, the Olivetti-Underwood ...

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Sharon Weinberger is the author of The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World. The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War ...

Biographer Meryle Secrest chases a theory that two key Olivetti computer visonaries' deaths did not happen as officially recorded. While a... In the preface to The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti, ...